Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot
By: edited by Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish.
Contributors: Laity, Cassandra.; Gish, Nancy K., 1942-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Eliot, T. S. -- 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century; Erotic poetry, American -- History and criticism; Sexual orientation in literature; Gender identity in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Desire in literature; Sex in literature
Description: "This collection of new essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism, and early twentieth-century feminism in his poetry, prose, and drama. Ranging from historical and formalist literary criticism to psychological and psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot illuminates such topics as the influence of Eliot's mother - a poet and social reformer - on his art; the aesthetic function of physical desire; the dynamic of homosexuality in his poetry and prose; and his identification with passive or "feminine" desire in his poetry and drama. The book also charts his reception by female critics from the early twentieth century to the present. This book should be essential reading for students of Eliot and modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Eliot, gender, and modernity / Cassandra Laity; title: The love song of T.S. Eliot : elegiac homoeroticism in the early poetry / Colleen Lamos; title: T.S. Eliot, famous clairvoyante / Tim Dean; title: "Cells in one body" : nation and eros in the early work of T.S. Eliot / Michele Tepper; title: The masculinity behind the ghosts of modernism in Eliot's Four quartets / Peter Middleton; title: Discarnate desire : T.S. Eliot and the poetics of dissociation / Nancy K. Gish; title: Mimetic desire and the return to origins in The waste land / Jewel Spears Brooker; title: Theorizing emotions in Eliot's poetry and poetics / Charles Altieri; title: Through schoolhouse windows : women, the academy, and T.S. Eliot / Gail McDonald; title: T.S. Eliot speaks the body : the privileging of female discourse in Murder in the cathedral and The cocktail party / Richard Badenhausen; title: T.S. Eliot, women, and democracy / Rachel Potter; title: Vipers, viragos, and spiritual rebels : women in T.S. Eliot's Christian society plays / Elisabeth Däumer.